A litany of problems beset the U.S. education system — chronic underfunding of public schools, privatization of what should be a universal human right, one-size-fits-all pedagogies, “teaching to the test,” and a racist school-to-prison pipeline, f...
A litany of problems beset the U.S. education system — chronic underfunding of public schools, privatization of what should be a universal human right, one-size-fits-all pedagogies, “teaching to the test,” and a racist school-to-prison pipeline, for starters. Yet, tech companies are marketing AI as a one-stop-shop solution to “empower” teachers and “streamline” learning. They proclaim that education — like art and policing and healthcare and warfare and media and labor and music and and and — can be automated too, making learning more efficient and effective. In a *shocking* turn of events, introducing AI to the classroom is happening the opposite effect. I’m an independent journalist authoring a series of articles about AI proliferation and its various implications. In part eight of the series, I wrote about AI and education covering the education institutions — from public school systems to private universities — enthusiastically adopting AI products in the classroom. You can read it here. As educators, I’m wondering what your experiences have been with AI, whether administrators have been encouraging its adoption and what students have to say. My assessment from reading studies about the cognitive effects of AI is that it belongs nowhere near the classroom, but O’m curious what you all think! submitted by /u/Here-Together [link] [comments]
